Table 5.

Amino acid concentration (g/100g) in indigenous and hybrid varieties of pumpkin seed oil.

Amino acid	Indigenous pumpkin seed oil	Hybrid pumpkin seed oil
Aspartic acid	2.050 ± .58	1.920 ± 0.52
Threonine	0.830 ± 0.01**	0.790 ± 0.01
Serine	0.640 ± 0.01**	0.600 ± 0.01
Glutamic acid	3.733 ± 0.63	3.597 ± 0.57
Glycine	1.636 ± 0.50	1.408 ± 0.32
Alanine	0.740 ± 0.01	0.790 ± 0.01**
Valine	1.363 ± 0.33	0.980 ± 0.01
Methionine	0.670 ± 0.01**	0.630 ± 0.01
Isolucine	0.810 ± 0.01**	0.770 ± 0.01
Leucine	2.297 ± 0.51	2.317 ± 0.35
Tyrosine	0.830 ± 0.01**	0.790 ± 0.01
Histidine	1.399 ± 0.32	1.378 ± 0.32
Lysine	3.493 ± 0.56	2.913 ± 0.56
Arginine	1.698 ± 0.43	1.723 ± 0.48

Values are designated as mean ± SE (n = 3). *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001 are considered as significant.